Unfortunately
the dogs had a restless night, and when they are restless, so is everyone else.
Over
brekkie I watched an episode of “Man Down”. Originally
broadcast some six years ago it was entertaining, and featured the late Rik
Mayall.
I
sparked up the lap-top and peered into the Internet. Not a lot was happening on
Facebook really. There was quite a lot of political rubbish being posted. But
for every post about how terrible the Conservatives are, there was another post
about how awful Labour are. Both of the main parties seem to have as their
election catch-phrase “vote for us – we aren’t as bad as them…”
LinkedIn
had emailed me (yet again) asking if I
knew random strangers.
As
I drove to work the pundits on the radio were talking about the latest poll
about the upcoming General Election. Our old friend Science has devised a
really super-doper way of finding out how the general public are going to vote
and has predicted that the Conservatives will win with a majority of about
sixty-eight seat in the House of Commons. That struck me as a rather
frightening prospect until it was pointed out that the margin of error in this
prediction was so large that it was equally possible that the
Conservatives wouldn't even win at all.
So
why bother with the prediction in the first place?
There
was then talk about Mr Corbyn's latest revelation. He's obtained over four
hundred pages of secret documents which (he claims) prove that
the Government are going to sell off the NHS. Interestingly every single expert
who's *not* a member of the Labour party feel that these
documents prove no such thing.
There
was a lot of petty bickering on the issue.
A
Rabbi was then wheeled on to give the "Thought for the Day" in
which he suggested that the world might be a better place without all the petty
bickering.
I
got to work with no hold ups or delays today. Work was much the same as ever,
but I did get to spend a little time with one of the trainees explaining to her
the intricacies of human red cell metabolism and white cell function. I
used to do that all the time... do I miss it? I miss the teaching bit. I
certainly don't miss the paperwork that goes with it.
With
my bit done I came home along roads which were nowhere near as busy as they
were last night. I took the dogs round the roads for a walk. Some houses have
had Christmas decorations up inside for some time; this evening I saw the first
full-blown garden Christmas display with illuminated snowman, inflatable Santa,
reindeer, lights and pressies.
Don’t
these people realise that Santa shoots an elf for every Christmas decoration
that goes up in November?
We
came home, and it wasn’t that long before "er indoors TM" came home. She’d been Christmas
shopping.
A good bit of tea, and
episode of “Junior Bake Off”… I need an early night.
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